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Lewisham’s gardeners are singing the brown bin blues. The cost of the council’s weekly garden waste collection service has from April 1 gone up from…

You may have noticed newly planted street trees in the pavements of Ladywell, writes Dom Eliot. These are probably the work of Street Trees for Living,…

PLACE/Ladywell, the UK’s first pop-up village for families forced to live in B&Bs, is set to be moved to make way for 200 homes in…

The ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ) came into effect in central London on April 8 2019 in a move to clean up the city’s air. It…

Some of Lewisham’s traffic clogged streets may be about to get a breather. The council is rolling out a £2m Healthy Neighbourhoods programme of local…

Russ, the members-led community land trust, hopes to start the early site preparation for its house building project in Church Grove, Ladywell, in the summer…

Lewisham Council and Glendale are to crack down on moped and motorbike users riding illegally through Ladywell Fields park. Local people fear the motorbike riders…

Yes, it’s back. The Ladywell Fields cafe, which was shut unexpectedly by the Jimmy Mizen Trust late last year, has reopened. The Ten Thousand Hands…

A planning application has been submitted for a solar powered smart bench with advertisement panels to be placed outside The Larder delicatessen and Coral betting…

Plans for a multi-screen cinema and community business space in a refurbished Ladywell Play Tower have stalled raising fears the Grade II listed building will…